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Well, it's finally wired and motor is running. Taking it to be 4 wheel aligned next week then driving it!!!

Could be but not necesarily. An open center rear axle, empty box and a heavy right foot can make that right rear spin pretty easily. Most of the torque seems to go through that tire regardless and that tire will wear faster than the left. Even if it is wild, doesn't mean you have to drive it that way. Sensible driving will keep the stock parts together for a long time.

truck picture B-1-D-126: the Indian blankets are in full bloom, thought I'd take a picture of'm:

Spent the last two days getting the Plymouth all shiney for the trip to Ocean City, MD. A good scrubbing, and two coats of paste wax. This Oldguy is tired out, but the car looks great! (at least I think so, although my opinion may be a bit biased)

Be VERY careful,grasshoppa! That's the sort of thinking I had when I first got back into this stuff. "What can it hurt?",I said? One "good deal" lead to another good deal,and before I knew it I was buying a wrecker to drag all the stuff home that was being given to me. Then one day it occured to me that I had 26 partially stripped hulks in my yard,and was spending more time cutting grass around them and moving them around than I was working on my projects. Yeah,you can sell the parts and even the cars on ebay,but when you are dealing with more than one car you are selling or parting out,it can end up sucking away all your time and you don't have time for anything but answering emails and finding boxes to ship stuff off. I've got my yard down to maybe a dozen parts cars now,and they are the ones for old cars with fenders and trim parts I want or need. Most of the newer crap I had for the drivetrains are stripped and gone. It really is a lot of work and very time-consuming to pull parts,mark them for what they are,catalog them in files on your computer,take photos,answer emails,track down boxes and packing material,and then list the damn things and respond to the emails. I currently have parts from a 76 Coupe de Ville (anybody need a 500 cu in caddy?) and a 68 Electra 225 on ebay,and the reality is if I count all the time I have involved in getting those parts listed and sold,I doubt I will be making 3 bucks a hour on some of the stuff. The only bright spot is I saved these parts from going to the crusher. I am done with dragging stuff home to strip it out,though. No mas. In the future I will just spend the money to buy the parts I need or leave it alone.

A special thank you to some who kept me going. There are others, 48D, Young Ed, Don Courtney,Reg I may over look some one, but these came along at critical times. Plymouthy knows these cars as few others do. I take careful note of what he says. Thank you to one and all. The compliments keep coming. Yesterday a fellow followed me into the parking lot. His first vehicle was a 48 Pilot-house, he asked a dairyman if he would sell it, the reply was slow in coming then he said "I would have to get $35.00 for it! Now this was a few years back. Many have seen these, but I wanted to record the progress. So if you are starting out, take heart, the results are "priceless".

When I retired after 30 years as a factory rep for the general, I can tell you when you let the "bean counters" run the company quality and innovation suffer. The japs value equal input from engineering, financial, as well as marketing. They aren't perfect either, but you can't have just one discipline running the company. Ask me how I know.

But since the Japanese where making a better car the America Auto makers were then forced to make better bodies and better cars that are more reliable. When was the last time that you saw any major rott out on a car. I know that some cars in the upper states may get the rustout because of the amount of salt that these states use but overall the bodies are not rusting. Look at the engine life, going 100k before replacing spark plugs oil life now going any where from 5-10K. Got rid of the old pure based oils and now running synthetic oils. Electronic ignitions getting better gas mileage tires that can last upto 80k miles if rotated. brake linings no going 50k and up. So yes the cars of the years that we are running now as antiques had alot of steel but that would rust out. So overall the car companies have improved and were forced to improve as the Amercan started to buy the Hondas that had better quality right out of the box. So in this instance foreign competition was good for the american buyer and forced the American Car manufacturer to improve their product or go out of business. When we destroyed Japan with the Nuke bomb there where forced to start over with the Demming model of business but inthe states we keep the status quo and then it bite us in the rear end. Now we are starting to bring back to the states the manufacturing that we lost so it is very cyclical. Rich Hartung. Desoto1939@aol.com

230 crank, rods, flywheel in/on a 218ci, give you a 230ci .... Here are some good places to read up on the two engines. 218 teardown 230 teardown 230 ID and info 218 vs 230 poll Blueskies engine build Flathead 6 ID info More Flat6 Info 48D

Tim (48Dodger) is right there are still a few of us that banter back and forth and some on here do not know the history of the posters and their interactions and seems they take more offense and post more negatives than the guy for whom the post was intended...I am glad we scan still joke a bit here....